Sentence examples for term resilient from inspiring English sources

Five years later, Sykes caught up with Abbas, now a confident teenager for whom the term resilient is a gaping understatement.

This, by the way, is true even if we use the term "resilient" instead of "robust".

Mid-term: resilient, trustworthy ecosystems; efficient security and privacy architectures; design methods and development tool chains; human behavior modeling.

But small steps will garner gains: a more peaceful America (at Canada's levels for example) yields $361 billion in annual savings and economic activity, making America financially sustainable in the short term and resilient in the long term.

The arguments in its favour in terms of resilient, productive companies are unambiguous.

The best co-operatives are inclusive, long-term and resilient – in many ways, the characteristics of some of the best state services.

An extensive experimental programme was carried out consisting of laboratory durability tests to determine the mechanical behaviour of stabilised subgrade soils, in terms of resilient modulus and permanent deformation, under cycles of wetting and drying.

In complex adaptive systems terms, a resilient system is able to function well within the fitness landscape or environment in which it is embedded [ 235].

But we need to acknowledge that transformational relationships are likely to be more expensive, more time-consuming but also longer term and more resilient to policy and other changes.

The high pressure zone off the west coast or North America has been termed the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge" due to its persistence over the past two years.

Europeans imposed stubbornly resilient terms and values on Africa — "primitivism," for example, which had to surprise the members of fully functional native societies — and the strip-mining of African forms by European artists, primarily Picasso, compounded the confusion with a sort of aesthetic-feedback loop, making Africanist styling a standard flavor of chic modernity.